Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast, where we provide one lesson every single day to help you with your most important job, being a parent.

I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

parents just like you all over the world. Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

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It was early in the morning in the winter of 1870 that Redyard Kipling's parents roused him,

then five, and his younger sister tricks from their sleep to say goodbye.

And then suddenly, with awful surprise, they were gone. No word, he recounts,

of for how long or how necessary it was. Simply, don't forget us. Oh, my little son, don't forget us.

The truth was that his parents, financially devastated expats, were sending their children back to England for schooling. But in the fashion of

parenting at that time, British parenting, especially, all of this explanation was thought to be

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